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Teachers of students with visual impairments or blindness are responsible for teaching so many things. How do you prioritize what to teach when?
It used to be...
TVIs - our mission is to help our students learn math and to love learning math! What mainstream, approved digital math tools are you teaching your students?...
Zoom meetings have become the "new normal" for businesses and for classes. Scribe for Meetings is a new tool that enables the meeting host to upload PowerPoint...
The Math Melodies app is a FREE fully accessible math app created specifically for students who are blind or low vision. The app covers a wide range of math...
When reading, some students breeze over the words without truly understanding the meaning - missing many of the humorous lines that are weaved into the story....
Teachers of the Visually Impaired are jumping for joy! Why? Math Melodies is a fully accessible math app covering a wide range of math topics ranging from...
The National Homework Hotline for Blind and Visually Impaired students (NHH-BVI) was created in response to the school closures due to COVID. (See Homework...
What happens when Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas are all mixed together? Find out in this whacky poem! These activities can be done on any device; the...
What do calculators, extended keyboards, bank machines, adding machines, checkout at registers, door locks, and phone have in common? Numpads! (Also known as...
Teachers are buzzing about APH's new beginning braille letter app, BrailleBuzz! This is a sister app to the popular stand-alone BrailleBuzz toy. Both games...
While looking for public fall-themed educational activities, I came across Kids Listen, podcasts for kids. Kids Listen is unique in that all the content is...
It is common to believe that a child who does not perform in school does not try hard enough. However, the reasons for this difficulty can be much deeper....
Emerging readers should be flooded with interesting books and these books should be available in various formats! Preschoolers love to do the same activity...
"Accessible Places" is a new feature (May 2020) in Google Maps. This feature lists whether a location has an accessible entrance, seating, restrooms and...
For remote instruction, my student with multiple disabilities and CVI receives materials via Google Classroom. Service providers post short videos of fine...
In recent times, there has been a huge increase in the use of video conferencing software. So many educators and other professionals have been required to...
Thanks to a grant from Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility program, ObjectiveEd has developed Braille AI Tutor – an innovative system to enable students to...
During COVID-19 school closures, Amazon has made their books and audio stories for children and students of all ages FREE - no subscription! Books can be...
At the time of the writing of this post, there are a lot of people at home from work and school. Because of this stability, people are looking for ways to...
As a college student studying data science, I have to have a basic understanding of different subjects and topics so that I can better understand the data I am...
As each state embarks on providing remote instruction to students, many companies are providing free training through video conferencing and webinars, as well...
This is a perfect time for students with visual impairments to learn and master new tech skills; having strong tech skills will have a significant, lasting...
Zoom is a leader in accessible video and audio conferencing. With school closures, educators are turning to Zoom as a means to provide virtual instruction....
Educators are being asked to prepare lesson plans for virtual instruction due to the Coronavirus threat. Yesterday, entire states have been proactive and have...
In my O&M lessons, as my students can attest, I usually try to cram in as many different skills as I can in order to maximize our time together. This...
Students with visual impairments and blindness are successfully using technology in the classroom and it is exciting to see how technology has a positive...
All students need to learn to use commas and have opportunities to practice using commas. Quite often braille students who are pulled out for language arts,...
Book Creator is a simple tool that educators, family members, and students frequently use to create fun digital books. Book Creator's latest update included...
As educators, finding good children’s books is essential to developing literacy in students. The Epic! app allows educators to provide students access to...
My student has been learning to read high frequency words in braille and alphabetic word signs. She’s had the greatest success reading teacher created...
There are digital tools available that enable students with visual impairments to access digital math and more resources are being developed! As educators, we...
As educators, we often teach basic reading skills, such as identifying letters, words, building vocabulary and spelling. However, when was the last time you...
The Active Braille is a forty-cell refreshable braille display with cursor router keys, a Perkin’s style keyboard, two triple action keys, and two spacebar...
How do you start teaching digital literacy skills to young students who are learning technology? Memorizing a list of commands is B-O-R-I-N-G!
How about...
This month, I created a pumpkin themed book for my first grade dual media learner using the Book Creator App. Since she loves cats, I wrote a simple story...
Ask your student his/her "resolutions" for the new school year! This fun activity can be done with an individual student as an O&M or VI lesson or with the...
WebAIM is a non-profit organization with a mission to expand the potential of the web for people with disabilities by providing the knowledge, technical skills...
Update 9/4/2019
APH recently updated their APH Crossword web-browser game. There are several noteable updates, including:
Letters are larger - match the...
Refreshable Braille Displays (RBD) are peripheral devices that display braille characters, usually be raising and lowering dots through holes in a flat surface...
For a variety of reasons, students who have functional vision are often resistant to using a screen reader. Should these students be introduced to a screen...
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